Did Goodell's decision provide evidence of a sting?

Rob0729 · Jul 29, 2015

Ben Volin posted this part about the Goodell ruling relations to the Vikings and Panthers game:

The last line is the most important. The balls never got into the game and was addressed quickly. Is this evidence why they didn't go with the back up balls or check the balls after they disappeared? Is the fact that the balls got into the game and was not addressed immediately a factor in the punishment?

fgssand · Jul 29, 2015

At the end, substitute Goodell for Quayle and you will have the truth.

scott99 · Jul 29, 2015

fgssand said:
At the end, substitute Goodell for Quayle and you will have the truth.

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JoeSixPat · Jul 29, 2015

Rob0729 said:
Ben Volin posted this part about the Goodell ruling relations to the Vikings and Panthers game:

The last line is the most important. The balls never got into the game and was addressed quickly. Is this evidence why they didn't go with the back up balls or check the balls after they disappeared? Is the fact that the balls got into the game and was not addressed immediately a factor in the punishment?

I started reading Goodell's 20 pages of fiction

He has his first outright lie in the 2nd friggen sentence. "During the game a question arose as to whether the football being used by the Patriots were inflated to [proper levels]..."

NO ROGER - that question and allegation arose BEFORE the game. There are numerous sources who confirm that. This was a STING - a SET UP - right from the start.

And that set up continued with the NFL leaking, and in writing to the Patriots, false information to the public which, like the statement "Brady Destroyed His Phone" was intended to CREATE a scandal where none existed - at least according to scientific analysis of the data contained in the Wells Report.

Roger created a NEW scandal when he MANDATED what had NEVER been an issue or requirement of the league in their prior proceedings or discipline - yet is NOW the basis for Goodell the independent unbiased (yeah right) arbitrator upholding his own ruling.

Just saying - if Goodell has to lie by the 2nd sentence you know this is going to be vomit-worthy fiction

PatSunday · Jul 29, 2015

Rob0729 said:
Ben Volin posted this part about the Goodell ruling relations to the Vikings and Panthers game:

"The conduct at issue here is also very different... there was no evidence of any intentional attempt to violate or circumvent the rules, no player involvement, and no effort to conceal the ball attendant's conduct."

That's the same as the Patriots, how is that very different?

zasw · Jul 29, 2015

Jerry Jones said Goodell is doing a good job. The owners opinion is all that matters when it comes to Goodell. So...I guess all is good with the the world.

TommyD4207 · Jul 29, 2015

It sorta does.

However, while the NFLPA vaguely hints at a sting in their petition, they don't come right out and say it.

Joker · Jul 29, 2015

I've been calling Goodell a PATHOLOGICAL liar since 2007. I have posted PROOF on this very board how many hundreds of times?

It's in federal court now...kryptonite for Supergoondellaman. What I want to see is a full blown Colonel Jessup by the Goon if called to testify by Kessler.

Fencer · Jul 30, 2015

It's relevant to distinguish between:

A tight, pre-planned conspiracy.
People supporting each other in bad behavior.

The NFL and its employees are clearly guilty of the second. The first would be impossibly difficult to prove, and may not even be true.

According to trustworthy reporters like Reiss and Curran, the Patriots and Kraft are at least to some extent drawing that distinction -- the league office is full of bad guys, but Kraft seems to still be holding onto hope that Goodell is more their dupe than their leader.

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-impact-krafts-blast-nfl-may-be-felt-years
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england...-patriots-to-question-integrity-of-nfl-office

Kraft made it clear he believes the league office needs an enema. "Tom Brady is a person of great integrity and a great ambassador of the game, both on and off the field," he said. "Yet for reasons that I cannot comprehend, there are those in the league office who are more determined to prove that they were right rather than admit any culpability of their own, or take any responsibility for the initiation of a process and ensuing investigation that was flawed.” For months, I’ve explained that the Patriots’ greater gripe is with the people under Roger Goodell: League attorneys, league-operations people. Those are the people “in the league office” that Kraft is fingering. They are the ones that tethered Goodell to this investigation. The Patriots -- the football-side, not the business side -- had an adversarial relationship with the league office prior to 2007. Spygate was the NFL trying to put them in their place. The hard feelings from that episode never faded and suspicion that the Patriots are still “up to something” is pervasive around the league and on Park Avenue. The perception at Gillette: This has merely been an effort to “catch” New England, embarrass the organization, and give it the dose of humility the suits in question believe it deserves.

Did Goodell's decision provide evidence of a sting?

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